Show girl served three years with continental army D SAMPSON was born in plympton mass 18 years before she cut oil off her hair put on mens clothes took the name of robert shurtleff and succeeded in enlisting in the continental army as a common soldier A sabre cut in the forehead and a shot in the shoulder did not take her out of action and it was three years before an attack of brain fever while she was serving with washington gave gava her a discharge and his thanks congress voted her a grant of lands and a pension she married benjamin gannett a farm farmer cr near sharon mass and settled down to being a good wife and mother |